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Rejection Therapy Day 3 - Ask for Olympic Symbol Doughnuts. Jackie at Krispy Kreme Delivers! - YouTube. "What if you decided you needed to learn to handle rejection as a basic life skill? Maybe you'd try to practice it by making outlandish requests. What if those requests were answered? I'm sending this not just because the video is funny, but because some of the 'bad' things that we try to avoid, might in fact be good things to work on. As a parent, I wonder about how to instill these things in my daughter as she grows up." (Alistair for Hugh).

'I Pretty Much Wanted to Die' - Grantland. "Lost was a huge success. But it didn't follow any normal rules of television. Created by a network executive, thrown together in a hurry, and built for failure. This Grantland piece on the book shows just how much modern media is rewriting old rules." (Alistair for Mitch).

Every story has a beginning - Wraggle Labs. "I've been thinking a lot about structuring the data inside of books - thinking about the 'semantic book,' on the Web (rather than the usual thoughts of the semantic web). Here is an example of web content that is semantically explodable: click through to the various buttons, and scroll down the page on the 'Full Text' view. I am thinking about how powerful it would be to do this with books (and easy! if you use the right tool to make your books! -- ahem, PressBooks)." (Hugh for Alistair).

Disney Robots Play Catch With Your Kids - Mashable. "I have become overly fascinated with animatronics and robots. Computational power is getting good. Really good. What does this mean? We're inching closer to having robots do all sorts of cool things right along human beings. Science fiction? Crazy talk? Sure, currently this is all a bunch of parlor tricks, but it's going to change and it's going to happen at an exponential rate. Watch this..." (Mitch for Alistair).